Business idea № 2156. Personal social network Path

One of developers Facebook Connect and Facebook Platform Dejv Morin (Dave Morin) has left from Facebook this year to start the project Path - the personal social network focused on an exchange by personal photos and limiting quantity of friends.

It is supposed that users will exchange photos first of all from mobile phones, it becomes possible thanks to start of the new mobile appendix for iPhone, (and it is very fast and for Android and BlackBerry), and contacts for the list of friends on Path to users of a personal social network are offered to be chosen from the telephone directory.
Under the statement of the author idea business, service Path is focused on an exchange of photos with close friends and relatives. According to instructions for use personal social network Path, the participant can get no more than 50 friends, unlike the same Facebook where this number isn't limited. «If on Facebook and other social networks users acquire« friends »with a velocity of light, and as a rule, with the majority of these people they have a little the general, it is faster a superficial acquaintance thanking Path they have possibility to communicate with true friends in the real world, instead of on the monitor screen», - mister Morin speaks.
Personal social network Path is a network for close friends. Restriction to 50 contacts is based on researches of anthropologist Robina of Dunbar (Robin Dunbar) considering that the human brain can support simultaneously to 150 social communications, and number of contacts to people which know also which trust, fluctuates from 40 to 60. In spite of the fact that large social networks offer possibility to users to limit the contacts, nevertheless the last don't feel also comfortably and in safety, as in the real world.

Dejv Morin has collected about 2,5 million dollars on financing of the new project. While the developer of a personal social network doesn't open the information on how he is going to earn money. «Most likely, it will be sale of services, type filters or themes for photographers or advertizing. Though to involve advertisers on the project with the limited number of people it will be problematic», - he speaks.